Kenneth Fisher

My name is Kenneth Fisher and I am Senior DBA for a large (multi-national) insurance company. I have been working with databases for over 20 years starting with Clarion and Foxpro. I’ve been working with SQL Server for 12 years but have only really started “studying” the subject for the last 3. I don’t have any real "specialities" but I enjoy trouble shooting and teaching. Thus far I’ve earned by MCITP Database Administrator 2008, MCTS Database Administrator 2005, and MCTS Database Developer 2008. I’m currently studying for my MCITP Database Developer 2008 and should start in on the 2012 exams next year. My blog is at https://sqlstudies.com/.

Finding active DTS packages

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

DTS is dead, long live SSIS. Way back when SQL 2005 was announced then released DTS was pronounced DOA. SSIS...

2013-12-09 (first published: 2013-11-27)

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Undocumented functionality in FORMATMESSAGE

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I was reading a rather interesting post on stackexchange “Why is % a forbidden char in a THROW message?” (which is...

2013-12-09

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Insert into a table using only default values

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

A while back I talked about the DEFAULT keyword and using it to tell SQL to use the default value...

2013-12-04

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Why do DBAs like to say “It Depends” so much?

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Well the short answer is that they just don’t have enough information to give a definitive answer. You will notice...

2013-12-02

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Finding the metadata for a query

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

You know I occasionally find it interesting how I learn new things. I was running through a practice test for...

2013-11-25

2,549 reads

A pattern to do beginning of period calculations.

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Beginning of period calculations are common things. Rolling month reports, queries to pull everything from last month etc require beginning...

2013-11-20

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Connection options in SSMS

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

When connecting to a SQL Server instance in SSMS there are a fair number of options. Most DBAs I know...

2013-11-18

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Who’s on call

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

Every morning we have a daily meeting and my manager asks who’s on call. And every morning some form of...

2013-11-13

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A better way to find missing indexes

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

I recently attended SQL Saturday #255 and specifically the performance tuning pre-con put on by Grant Fritchey. It was a...

2013-11-11

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sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V3.0

by Kenneth Fisher

SQLStudies

These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data...

2013-11-11 (first published: 2013-11-04)

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Blogs

A New Word: Dorgone

dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...

Tell It Once: Setting Up Claude With Skills and MCP Servers

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SQL Server Transaction Log Forensics: Preserving Evidence During an Incident

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Forums

does anyone used https://github.com/ktaranov/sqlserver-kit

By ARUN KUMAR AGUNURU

Could you please let me know if anyone is used https://github.com/ktaranov/sqlserver-kit github for deployment...

How Can Database Performance Improve the Overall Website Experience?

By Brooks-Hayward

I’ve been looking into ways to improve the connection between a website and its...

When And How to Automate?

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Hyperscale Replicas II

How many Azure SQL DB Hyperscale HA replicas can be configured as of Sept 2026?

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